SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

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TAKE ACTION

Inside SB 895: Science Funding on the Ballot
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CHEMISTRY

The Wonders of Chemical Biology in 5 Images
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Shields Up!

by Greg Watry

Daniel Cebra discusses how space agencies such as NASA contend with cosmic radiation for space travel and how his work as a high-energy nuclear physicist can help address these hazards.

 

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ENVIRONMENT

Are Humans Earth's Greatest Evolutionary Force?

At a recent Davis Science Cafe, we explore not only how our actions as a species affect ourselves but also how they impact the innumerable species we share the Earth with.
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PALEONTOLOGY

Did Dinosaurs Use Their Forelimbs for Social Signaling?

New research challenges the idea that Alvarezsaurid dinosaurs used their forelimbs to eat eggs, suggesting instead that they were tools for social signaling.
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PHYSICS

A New Road Map to Room Temperature Superconductors

A new perspective paper proposes an interdisciplinary road forward to achieve room-temperature superconductors.
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PALEONTOLOGY

Mollusk Evolution Has Declined and Grown More Predictable

By cataloguing the features of various mollusks in the fossil record, researchers found that early mollusks evolved a unique physical trait once every 2 million years.

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Non-rotating Early Galaxy Is a Surprise to Astronomers

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Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made a surprising discovery about a galaxy long, long ago and far, far away: It isn’t rotating. That’s something only seen in the most massive, mature galaxies that are closer to us in space and time, said Ben Forrest, a research scientist in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Davis, and first author on the paper published May 4 in Nature Astronomy. 
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Hunting for Cosmic Dawn With the James Webb Space Telescope

  • by Greg Watry
At the most recent Astronomy on Tap event at Sudwerk Brewing, Professor Tucker Jones, Department of Physics and Astronomy, describes how the James Webb Space Telescope is being used to pinpoint the cosmic dawn, an early period in the universe’s history when the first stars and galaxies formed.
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UC Davis Alumni Launch Geology Coding Bootcamp

  • by Greg Watry
Geology provides a language for understanding the Earth. Stories from the planet’s past are locked in the rocks and landscape. But others are hard to reveal, hidden in troves of data. Alums Barbara Wotham and Chad Trexler launched a Geology Coding Bootcamp program to help students uncover those stories.

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